Pre-Treatment Ferritin Level and Alveolar-Arterial Oxygen Gradient Can Predict Mortality Rate Due to Acute/Subacute Interstitial Pneumonia in Dermatomyositis Treated by Cyclosporine A/Glucocorticosteroid Combination Therapy: A Case Control Study

BACKGROUND: Acute/subacute interstitial pneumonia in dermatomyositis (DM-A/SIP) is a disease associated with a poor prognosis that resists treatment with glucocorticosteroids (GC) and progresses rapidly in a period of weeks to months to death. We retrospectively studied outcomes, prognostic factors,...

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Autores principales: Isoda, Kentaro, Takeuchi, Tohru, Kotani, Takuya, Hata, Kenichiro, Shoda, Takeshi, Ishida, Takaaki, Yoshida, Shuzo, Kimura, Yuko, Makino, Shigeki, Hanafusa, Toshiaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3931830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24586910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089610

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3931830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24586910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0089610

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